 I am Dr. Sagarika Mukherjee. I am a consultant and a chronologist at Manipal Hospital Salt Lake in Kolkata. This video is about making people aware about prevalence of diabetes and how it is associated with complications with diabetes. 14th November is celebrated as the World Diabetes Day. This day was chosen as because this is the birthday of Friedrich Banting, who is one of the scientists who was involved in the discovery of insulin along with Charles Best in 1921. Both of them got Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1922 for the discovery of insulin. Diabetes is increasing in leaps and bounds and more so in our country. Diabetes is associated with such a lot of complications, especially associated with heart disease, kidney problems, increased amount of strokes, infections, eye problems, etc. We need to be more aware about diabetes so that we can curb it down. The slogan for World Diabetes Day this year is access to diabetes care. What do you mean by access to diabetes care? How can you get more help regarding diabetes? Now, before you get help for diabetes, you need to know your problem that what is diabetes? Why I should be so much concerned about diabetes? What are the problems I can face having diabetes? How can I manage my diabetes? How can I stay in control with diabetes and lead a more or less normal life with less amount of complications associated with diabetes? So, once you know that why what is diabetes and what are your risks for diabetes known for knowing your risks for diabetes, there is already a score available and the risk score app or tool is available on the internet. And even in the International Diabetes Federation site, there is a tool available which will help you to test yourself to see that how you are at risk for developing diabetes. And accordingly, you can make your health plans. If you have already got diabetes, you need to be very careful about what you're eating. Try and eat healthy food like increased amount of fiber, moderate amount of protein, low amount of fat, and your carbohydrate intake should be in balance with the amount of physical activities that you have. If you have got a lot of physical activities, then your carb intake should be accordingly. But if you have more or less a sedentary lifestyle, your carb intake should be low because if you have high carb intake, that will increase your blood sugars as well as increase the weight as well. And also, taking regular medications, your medication should be adjusted according to your blood sugar level and also according to the problems that you have, which your doctor will be discussing with you. And time to time doing tests for diabetes so that you can keep on board about how well is your control maintained. So all I need to say is be aware that diabetes is lurking around. Know your risks for developing diabetes and if you feel that you are at high risk of diabetes, there is always room for prevention by increasing your activities level or increasing your exercise level. Eat healthy food and be aware of the problem and do not hide away from it. Stay healthy and stay safe. Thank you very much.